| 38 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade) |
| 58 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 24 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 60 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 1407 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 21 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 48 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 89 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 2.11 | Japanese for Busy People |
| 34 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 34 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 100 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 535 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3658 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1867 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2544 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 775 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 7869 | Morohashi |
| 2940 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1439 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 768 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 830 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 148 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 17 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
山
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N5
131 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 山 【サン】 Mt., Mount, temple
- 山陰 【ヤマカゲ】 place in the shade of a mountain, shelter of the mountains, mountain recess
- 治山 【チサン】 forest conservation, afforestation
- 開山 【カイサン】 founding a temple (on a hill-top)
- 山道 【ヤマミチ】 mountain road, mountain trail
- 山海経 【センガイキョウ】 Classic of Mountains and Seas (classic Chinese text)
- 雪山 【セツザン】 snowy mountain, permanently snow-covered mountain, Himalayas
- 須弥山 【シュミセン】 Mount Sumeru (believed to be the centre of the Buddhist world)
Kun reading compounds
- 山 【やま】 mountain, hill, mine (e.g. coal mine), heap, pile, crown (of a hat), thread (of a screw), tread (of a tire), protruding part of an object, high part, climax, peak, critical point, guess, speculation, gamble, criminal case, crime, mountain climbing, mountaineering, festival float (esp. one mounted with a decorative halberd), deck (of playing cards on table, face down, from which cards are drawn), stack, wall, wall tile, temple, temple grounds, wild
- 山陰 【やまかげ】 place in the shade of a mountain, shelter of the mountains, mountain recess
- 奥山 【おくやま】 remote mountain, mountain recesses
- 青山 【せいざん】 lush mountain, green mountain, grave, burial place
Readings
- Japanese names:
- さ、 やの、 やん
- Korean:
- san
Spanish
- montaña
Portuguese
- montanha
French
- montagne
| 1276 | 2001 Kanji |
| 3o0.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 3-2-1 | SKIP code |
| 4-3-2 | SKIP code |
| 2277.0 | Four corner code |
| 1-27-19 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 5c71 | Unicode hex code |
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N3
913 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke order
On reading compounds
- 笑気 【ショウキ】 laughing gas, nitrous oxide
- 笑気麻酔 【ショウキマスイ】 nitrous oxide anesthesia, laughing gas anesthesia
- 苦笑 【クショウ】 bitter smile, wry smile, strained laugh, sarcastic laugh
- 冷笑 【レイショウ】 sneer, derision, scornful laugh, cold smile
Kun reading compounds
- 笑う 【わらう】 to laugh, to smile, to sneer, to ridicule, to be dumbfounded, to be flabbergasted
- 笑う門には福来る 【わらうかどにはふくきたる】 laugh and grow fat, good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile
- 笑む 【えむ】 to smile
Readings
- Japanese names:
- えみ
- Korean:
- so
Spanish
- risa
- sonrisa
- reír
- sonreír
Portuguese
- risada
French
- rire
| 537 | A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot) |
| 900 | A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall) |
| 889 | A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage |
| 3374 | Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson) |
| 1147 | Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 791 | Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki) |
| 1209 | Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill) |
| 1235 | Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 1299 | Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky) |
| 251 | Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono) |
| 1472 | Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide |
| 3275 | Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 1692 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 2300 | Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern) |
| 947 | Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette) |
| 25885 | Morohashi |
| 2646 | New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern) |
| 4256 | New Nelson (John Haig) |
| 938 | Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig) |
| 1008 | Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig) |
| 482 | The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley) |
| 548 | Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask) |
| 2363 | 2001 Kanji |
| 6f4.1 | The Kanji Dictionary |
| 2-6-4 | SKIP code |
| 8843.2 | Four corner code |
| 1-30-48 | JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code |
| 7b11 | Unicode hex code |